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Human intelligence is characterized not only by the capacity to learn complex skills, but the ability to rapidly adapt and acquire new skills within an ever-changing environment. In this work we study how the learning of modular solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jianan Wang , Eren Sezener , David Budden , Marcus Hutter , Joel Veness

We propose a novel pool-based Active Learning framework constructed on a sequential Graph Convolution Network (GCN). Each image's feature from a pool of data represents a node in the graph and the edges encode their similarities. With a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Razvan Caramalau , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim

Metric learning algorithms aim to learn a distance function that brings the semantically similar data items together and keeps dissimilar ones at a distance. The traditional Mahalanobis distance learning is equivalent to find a linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Karrar Al-Kaabi , Reza Monsefi , Davood Zabihzadeh

In this work, we propose Attentive Pooling (AP), a two-way attention mechanism for discriminative model training. In the context of pair-wise ranking or classification with neural networks, AP enables the pooling layer to be aware of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Cicero dos Santos , Ming Tan , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a dominant approach to learning graph representations, primarily because of their message-passing mechanisms. However, GNNs typically adopt a fixed aggregator function such as Mean, Max, or Sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan , Zhao Kang , Wenyu Chen

Deep metric learning is often used to learn an embedding function that captures the semantic differences within a dataset. A key factor in many problem domains is how this embedding generalizes to new classes of data. In observing many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Xiaotong Liu , Hong Xuan , Zeyu Zhang , Abby Stylianou , Robert Pless

Pooling is an essential component of a wide variety of sentence representation and embedding models. This paper explores generalized pooling methods to enhance sentence embedding. We propose vector-based multi-head attention that includes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Qian Chen , Zhen-Hua Ling , Xiaodan Zhu

The goal of multi-modal learning is to use complimentary information on the relevant task provided by the multiple modalities to achieve reliable and robust performance. Recently, deep learning has led significant improvement in multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Jaekyum Kim , Junho Koh , Yecheol Kim , Jaehyung Choi , Youngbae Hwang , Jun Won Choi

Generative Adversarial Networks have become one of the most studied frameworks for unsupervised learning due to their intuitive formulation. They have also been shown to be capable of generating convincing examples in limited domains, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Chris Dongjoo Kim , Graham Taylor

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable generalization capability with exceptional performance in various language modeling tasks. However, they still exhibit inherent limitations in precisely capturing and returning grounded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yijun Tian , Huan Song , Zichen Wang , Haozhu Wang , Ziqing Hu , Fang Wang , Nitesh V. Chawla , Panpan Xu

Learning the physical simulation on large-scale meshes with flat Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and stacking Message Passings (MPs) is challenging due to the scaling complexity w.r.t. the number of nodes and over-smoothing. There has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yadi Cao , Menglei Chai , Minchen Li , Chenfanfu Jiang

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) have quickly become the leading choice for inherently-interpretable machine learning. However, unlike uninterpretable methods such as DNNs, they lack expressive power and easy scalability, and are hence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Abhimanyu Dubey , Filip Radenovic , Dhruv Mahajan

Large neural networks are very successful in various tasks. However, with limited data, the generalization capabilities of deep neural networks are also very limited. In this paper, we empirically start showing that intrinsically sparse…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Machine learning (ML) is capable of accurate Load Forecasting from complete data. However, there are many uncertainties that affect data collection, leading to sparsity. This article proposed a model called Adaptive Ensemble Learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Junying Yang , Gang Lu , Xiaoqing Yan , Peng Xia , Di Wu

Learning heuristics for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) has gained much attention due to the less reliance on hand-crafted rules. However, existing methods are typically trained and tested on the same task with a fixed size and distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jianan Zhou , Yaoxin Wu , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang

Generalized planning is concerned with the computation of general policies that solve multiple instances of a planning domain all at once. It has been recently shown that these policies can be computed in two steps: first, a suitable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Guillem Francès , Blai Bonet , Hector Geffner

Graph neural networks have been widely used on modeling graph data, achieving impressive results on node classification and link prediction tasks. Yet, obtaining an accurate representation for a graph further requires a pooling function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jinheon Baek , Minki Kang , Sung Ju Hwang

We propose Geometric Neural Parametric Models (GNPM), a learned parametric model that takes into account the local structure of data to learn disentangled shape and pose latent spaces of 4D dynamics, using a geometric-aware architecture on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Mirgahney Mohamed , Lourdes Agapito

In this work, we propose a graph-adaptive pruning (GAP) method for efficient inference of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this method, the network is viewed as a computational graph, in which the vertices denote the computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Mengdi Wang , Qing Zhang , Jun Yang , Xiaoyuan Cui , Wei Lin

Graph Neural Network (GNN) architectures are defined by their implementations of update and aggregation modules. While many works focus on new ways to parametrise the update modules, the aggregation modules receive comparatively little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ryan Kortvelesy , Steven Morad , Amanda Prorok